5.0 Budget Sound budgeting is important for your technology plan; not only to project future spending and funding, but also to
meet requirements for various private, state and federal funding opportunities. It is recommended that a
representative from your treasurer’s office be involved in completing this phase. Additional Items Wireless Provide details about your budget process. How did your committee gather this data? Have you included
spending amounts for planned future technology hardware, software, professional development, or other
services? The budget process begins with District committees meeting to provide input based on curriculum-technology
goals. This is forwarded to the curriculum and technology departments for evaluation, comments, etc. An
implimentation plan is developed and a budget is estimated. This process continues until all priority goals are
exhausted. The final budget is created and passed to the Board for approval. How will we get there? Immediately, to cover our infrastructure upgrade and VOIP installation, we used our latest operating and
construction levy to embellish our general fund expenses.
To help with hardware costs until now, we accepted many business and private donations. Utilizing the
Microsoft Education Reuse program, we were able to place into service over 100 PII workstations.
We utilize OneNet funds to pay for our yearly private fiber maintenance and plan to upgrade our current
infrastructure.
Past that, we rely on yearly general fund monies, use E-rate for eligible telecommunications offsets (typically
about $25,000 per year) covering telco and DA-site ISP costs, and plan to investigate the possibility of a
technology bond issue.
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5.0 Budget
Sound budgeting is important for your technology plan; not only to project future spending and funding, but also to
meet requirements for various private, state and federal funding opportunities. It is recommended that a
representative from your treasurer’s office be involved in completing this phase.
Additional Items
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Provide details about your budget process. How did your committee gather this data? Have you included
spending amounts for planned future technology hardware, software, professional development, or other
services?
The budget process begins with District committees meeting to provide input based on curriculum-technology
goals. This is forwarded to the curriculum and technology departments for evaluation, comments, etc. An
implimentation plan is developed and a budget is estimated. This process continues until all priority goals are
exhausted. The final budget is created and passed to the Board for approval.
How will we get there?
Immediately, to cover our infrastructure upgrade and VOIP installation, we used our latest operating and
construction levy to embellish our general fund expenses.
To help with hardware costs until now, we accepted many business and private donations. Utilizing the
Microsoft Education Reuse program, we were able to place into service over 100 PII workstations.
We utilize OneNet funds to pay for our yearly private fiber maintenance and plan to upgrade our current
infrastructure.
Past that, we rely on yearly general fund monies, use E-rate for eligible telecommunications offsets (typically
about $25,000 per year) covering telco and DA-site ISP costs, and plan to investigate the possibility of a
technology bond issue.